Prepare to be forgotten

KWENU! Our culture, our future

Prepare to be forgotten

Nwachukwu Matthew Ezewudo

Friday, January 5, 2007

Life ends, and you are still walking

You cannot be blind, now do you not perceive?

Have you really though about what is happening to you

Perhaps, you think that talking and breathing means being

But it is not that simple, how could life be that easy!

A census of the world's living, maybe just a couple of thousands, maybe!

Listen, the day we become inconsequential, we cease living

And our daily efforts becomes just to get by, and secure our selves

So the story of Azikiwe and Ojike should be forgotten as unnecessary

We are content with sitting just here and remaining static!

Don't try to prod and push us, we could relapse and reject our history

That is how we claim life as an unthinking people bereft of nostalgia

Our main concern is to remain atop individually

And our dream is a nation of all kings and no subjects

How could our royal tribe bother about our community's poverty and collapse?

See, those lack and deprivations leaves us Excellencies and honourables

For we need people to adore and worship our dazzling accumulations

So we could fling crumbs at will, and watch the underling scramble for pieces

But I have come to inform us; our time is past

Wittingly or without our consent, our generation is a blank one

And so much hope and trust have been dashed by our myopia

We forget the promise of strength in unity, as in United States, United Kingdom

So life ends for all that live for self and now, for now is past!

We had better pray for a better deal four our children, the future.